Author: Marija Wakounig
Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN: 3643502419
Category : Citizenship
Languages : de
Pages : 703

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Author: Philipp Schorch
Publisher: transcript Verlag
ISBN: 3839455901
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 345

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In which ways are environments (post-)socialist and how do they come about? How is the relationship between the built environment, memory, and debates on identity enacted? What are the spatial, material, visual, and aesthetic dimensions of these (post-)socialist enactments or interventions? And how do such (post-)socialist interventions in environments become (re)curated? By addressing these questions, this volume releases ›curation‹ from its usual museological framing and carries it into urban environments and private life-worlds, from predominantly state-sponsored institutional settings with often normative orientations into spheres of subjectification, social creativity, and material commemorative culture.

Author: James Koranyi
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110697440
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 368

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Digging Politics explores uses of the ancient past in east-central Europe spanning the fascist, communist and post-communist period. Contributions range from East Germany to Poland to Romania to the Balkans. The volume addresses two central questions: Why then and why there. Without arguing for an east-central European exceptionalism, Digging Politics uncovers transnational phenomena across the region that have characterized political wrangling over ancient pasts. Contributions include the biographies of famous archaeologists during the Cold War, the wrought history of organizational politics of archaeology in Romania and the Balkans, politically charged Cold War exhibitions of the Thracians, the historical re-enactment of supposed ancient Central tribes in Hungary, and the virtual archaeology of Game of Thrones in Croatia. Digging Politics charts the extraordinary story of ancient pasts in modern east-central Europe.

Author: Markus Balkenhol
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030380505
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 295

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How do religious emotions and national sentiment become entangled across the world? In exploring this theme, The Secular Sacred focuses on diverse topics such as the dynamic roles of Carnival in Brazil, the public contestation of ritual in Northern Nigeria, and the culturalization of secular tolerance in the Netherlands. The contributions focus on the ways in which sacrality and secularity mutually inform, enforce, and spill over into each other. The case studies offer a bottom-up, practice-oriented approach in which the authors are wary to use categories of religion and secular as neutral descriptive terms. The Secular Sacred will be of interest to sociologists, anthropologists, ethnographers, political scientists, and social psychologists, as well as students and scholars of cultural studies and semiotics. Chapter 1 is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

Author: Alexander Libman
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108901395
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 383

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Libman and Obydenkova reveal how legacies of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) have survived in the politics, economic development, culture, and society of post-Communist regions in the 21st Century. The authors show how this impact is not driven by Communist ideology but by the clientelistic practices, opportunism and cynicism prevalent in the CPSU. Their study is built on a novel dataset of the CPSU membership rates in Russian regions in the 1950s-1980s, alongside case studies, interviews and an analysis of mass media previously only available in Russian and discussed here in English for the first time. It will appeal to students and scholars of Russian and Eastern European politics and history, and anyone who wants to better understand countries which live or have lived through Communism: from Eastern Europe to China and East Asian Communist states.

Author: Frank Jacob
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110729296
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 236

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Nationalism was declared to be dead too early. A postnational age was announced, and liberalism claimed to have been victorious by the end of the Cold War. At the same time postnational order was proclaimed in which transnational alliances like the European Union were supposed to become more important in international relations. But we witnessed the rise a strong nationalism during the early 21st century instead, and right wing parties are able to gain more and more votes in elections that are often characterized by nationalist agendas. This volume shows how nationalist dreams and fears alike determine politics in an age that was supposed to witness a rather peaceful coexistence by those who consider transnational ideas more valuable than national demands. It will deal with different case studies to show why and how nationalism made its way back to the common consciousness and which elements stimulated the re-establishment of the aggressive nation state. The volume will therefore look at the continuities of empire, actual and imagined, the role of "foreign-" and "otherness" for nationalist narratives, and try to explain how globalization stimulated the rise of 21st century nationalisms as well.

Author: Martin Schulze Wessel
Publisher: Franz Steiner Verlag
ISBN: 9783515086653
Category : History
Languages : de
Pages : 278

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Aus dem Inhalt Martin Schulze Wessel: Einleitung: Die Nationalisierung der Religion und die Sakralisierung der Nation im ostlichen Europa Thomas Bremer: Konfessionelle Konflikte aus theologischer Sicht Nationale und religiose Kulte: Stefan Laube: Nationaler Heiligenkult in Polen und Deutschland. Ein erinnerungspolitischer Vergleich aus dem 19. Jahrhundert Frithjof Benjamin Schenk: Die Nationalisierung des kulturellen Gedachtnisses? Das Aleksandr Nevskij-Bild in Russland im 19. Jahrhundert Religion in den Nationalbewegungen des 18./19. Jahrhunderts: Hans-Christian Maner: Die "rumanische Nation" in den Konzeptionen griechisch-katholischer und orthodoxer Geistlicher und Intellektueller Siebenburgens im 18. und 19. Jahrhundert John-Paul Himka: The Place of Religion in the Ukrainian National Revival Ricarda Vulpius: Der Kirchenkampf in der Ukraine als Beispiel fur Sakralisierung der Nation und Nationalisierung der Religion (1917-1921) Religion und nationale Festkultur: Harald Binder: Kirche und nationale Festkultur in Krakau 1861 bis 1910 Joachim von Puttkamer: Alltagliche Inszenierungen. Kirchliche und nationale Schulfeste in Ungarn 1867-1914 Religion und Krieg: Juliane Brandt: "Jesus und der Weltkrieg": Das Schicksal nationalen Gedankenguts des ungarischen Protestantismus im Ersten Weltkrieg Christoph Mick: Der Kult um den Unbekannten Soldaten in der Zweiten Polnischen Republik Religion in Kulturmustern: Klaus Buchenau: Svetosavlje und Pravoslavlje. Nationales und Universales in der serbischen Orthodoxie Vera Urban: Nationalisierung der Religion durch Abgrenzung? Orthodoxie versus Katholizismus in russischen Kulturtheorien des 19. Jahrhunderts Dirk Uffelmann: Nationalstaat und Religion - direkt oder umgekehrt proportional? Die gespannte Historiosophie von Zygmunt Krasinskis "Przedswit" (1843)

Author: Sabine Rutar
Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN: 3643106580
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 500

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This book shows how current and future research on the social history of the Balkans can be integrated into a broader European framework. The contributions look at a range of methodological and empirical issues, and the theme that links the various studies is that of the contrasting, yet, at the same time, entangled ideas of the Balkans as a "mental map" and of Southeast Europe as an "historical region." (Series: Studies on South East Europe - Vol. 10)

Author: Carsten Wieland
Publisher: Manohar Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 464

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In this comparative study of Muslim nation-building and the so-called 'ethnic conflicts' the author reveals stunning parallels between the collapse of Tito's Yugoslavia and the ethno-national separation of colonial India. In both cases Muslims ended up in a nation state of their own without the majority of them wanting one. There were no mass movements that demanded a new 'homeland', which contradicts modernisation-theory approaches of nationalism. Wieland digs below the surface and sketches historic developments that triggered the construction and instrumentalisation of 'ethnic groups' in both cases. He concludes that the term ethnicity has lost its academic value because it suffers from inconsistencies and strong political implications. 'Ethnicity' is not an existing group of people but a concept of action and political resource detached from any historic context. The 'ethnocentre' varies. In both the Yugoslavian and the Indian case it was religion around which secondary features were added as contrast boosters. Bosnia and Pakistan were founded under the strong influence of political elites and external political actors, like the colonial power or the international community, who themselves through within the ethno-national paradigm and acted accordingly. This helped to create Muslim nation states despite considerable contradictions between the political action group and the 'ethnic group' they claimed to represent. While delivering convincing facts and new perspectives, this book is a passionate appeal for the deconstruction of 'ethnic' camps.

Author: LIT Verlag
Publisher: LIT Verlag
ISBN: 3643963270
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 280

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The papers in this volume continue our focus on emotions of people in Southeast Europe. Grief and sadness are, of course, universal, but they take on different forms of expression. Strong emotional values are often attached to specific foods (e.g. the kurban), usually food is of great importance for labour migrants and in times of crisis. Likewise, dress can be of great emotional significance and value. Wars as well as communist collectivization often lead to emotional consequences such as trauma. Smells and tastes can become expressions of actual or remembered emotions, a fact that can also concern the researchers themselves. Klaus Roth is professor em. at the Institute for European Ethnology of Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich. Milena Benovska is professor em. of the Dept. of Ethnology and Balkan Studies of the South-West University of Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria. Ana Luleva is Assoc. Prof. at the Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Studies of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences in Sofia.